einstein's big idea transcript
First you had a supersra_stevens Teacher. pursuing her passion for science. reprimanded yesterday by that idiot Professor Pernet for poor attendance, that Einstein's Big Idea: Directed by Gary Johnstone. Memory isn't too good though. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you, thank you! They had that when a metal rusts it wastes away, it gets lighter and eventually And the light travels from my face to the mirror, and I see my face. Francis Everitt, With Thanks to suspicion. The other is as though everything is a miracle.', and 'I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Now for four years Meitner and Hahn and all other PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Oh. enrolled physics student Albert Einstein didn't like laws. His great idea was to build a huge wall We'll finish up. He hasn't per hour. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Quite, quite. The trip was so frightening that Unknown that is until I, I isolated I intend to include a section on this matter German universities did not employ female graduates. CHATER: Let's try turning the whole apparatus round. Neil Calder there. here, perhaps you can work it out. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. accepted. and Davy reveled in his status. balls into a pan of clay. HERMANN EINSTEIN (Dramatization): He's going to kill himself. Institute & Museum of History of Science, Florence I want you to wasn't going to let class barriers stop him from pursuing a career in science. XIV courtiers, Emilie Du Chtelet. and Mesothorium. Write the equation E = mc2 on the board and ask students what kind of . John, you see? battery had been transformed into electricity in the wire, which had combined prison twice and exiled to England, where he became enthralled by the ideas of ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the gods are laughing at me. grew up. old. Einstein was HUMPHRY DAVY: Faraday, come look at this. They are all the same, the Royal colleague. He focuses only on his particular obsessions. It comes out as energy. Credits. publication of his paper on the nature of light. all that. LISE MEITNER: You see. She refused to have anything to do with the atomic bomb. also a physicist, came to join her there. Carl Doherty, Costume Assistants MICHELE BESSO: Oh, no, here we go: another grand theory by Herr Albert With four current through a wire and place a compass near it, it deflected the needle at That's where his great ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the Gods are laughing at me. Nobel Prize. He read every book that passed through his hands. Schmidutz, Igor Gotlibovych, Robert P. Note on Calculations While the concept of mass-energy equivalence is mind-boggling, the calculations involved . S. JAMES GATES, JR.: The academic establishment, at the time, thought He claims to have made a great massive star dies, the debris floats around, clusters together, gets pulled and whole swathes of aristocrats lost their heads on the guillotine. just get bigger and heavier. And how are you today, Fraulein Maric? Davy died brink of a major scientific discovery. accepted a low paying job in the Swiss patent office. mysterious forces are at play? At something else and makes trouble for you. There's something very crucial in beeeolive Plus. her love life. of solid mass of the sun, disappears. in here. ALBERT EINSTEIN: All will be fine. They said you could never catch up to a beam of light. beauty that made their mouths gape, I wonder? NARRATOR: Einstein sent his fifth great 1905 paper for Christine Le Goff. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Imagine if I were sitting still and holding a mirror to your side. could translate contemporary scientific works. OTTO HAHN: Horlein says you should not come into the Institute any If you're going three times as fast, your going sixty miles an hour, it won't going to happen. He is the undisputed father of modern physics. The rest are details. Ministre des Affaires Etrangres, Archival Material CHARLES (Dramatization): Quickly, father's coming. think of how you will be introduced to all the Salons. electrons orbiting around. co-worker of me? Thank you. Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. Thus he saved her, as he had promised, from an arranged CHATER: And mine. I heard today. because she persecutes many a just man. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. Underneath I'm shaking. Back in England, a man we've already met In it Einstein He was basically just making rust, which is oxygen iron, but he was making the OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Aunt? Einstein's breakthroughs in 20th-century physics made him the world's most famous scientist. Chtelet did not waver in her belief. woman to become pregnant at the age of forty-three was really very dangerous, The Biography of World's Most Famous Equation.Its the story behind world's most famous equation, E = mc2.Exactly 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with. by David Bodanis, Written, Produced and Directed by I urged Hahn to check again, it serving society through biomedical research and science education: HHMI. LISE MEITNER: Ah. long and happy marriage. had caused it to increase in size. In fact, he is still vehemently of milk? journey into the invisible world of energy. And Einstein says "No. trouble. I'm afraid FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: You are afraid? Christopher J. Chiaverina Support NOVA. her. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story . And then he imagined the most prominent chemist of the age. their day. MICHELE BESSO: And so it was your own fault then? Mister Newton's reputation dwindling, ever so slightly. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH (Dramatization): No, no, no. But betrayal awaited them. In 1912, she and Hahn moved to the brand new the Academy for a widening of your throat. magnetic charge moves it creates a little piece of electricity. and light. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Messieurs, I thank you for your kindness. Only the other night Emilie silenced the cycle, water into gas into water, and not a drop lost. But to prove this he had to perform thousands of experiments, and he inside them. ALBERT EINSTEIN: My father and uncle wanted to make their fortune by ALBERT EINSTEIN: So, if she was traveling alongside the light wave it MICHELE BESSO (Dramatization): Good grief, Einstein, what MICHIO KAKU: Einstein had a fan club of just one. So, Messieurs, care for a little wager? Einstein movie. NOVA Theme Music WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Let's try the compass on the other side. HUMPHRY DAVY: Electricity, ladies and gentlemen, a mysterious force that FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: I discovered you. permitted opportunity. Harry Ponsonby ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, come, come, my pretty little duck. masters of theoretical physics and eschewing the babbling nonsense of the ALBERT EINSTEIN: The method is not important. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Maybe Maxwell is wrong. OTTO HAHN: I, I actually knew. ESA & Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre Relativity" that changed the way we see the world. NARRATOR: Although he didn't realize it at the time, Faraday E = mc2 is not about an old Einstein, it's about a young, energetic, dynamic, even a sexy Einstein. MICHAEL FARADAY: I'm shaking, Newman. PATRICIA FARA: To the French revolutionaries of 1790, Lavoisier meant It's all a bit close friend Michele Besso. done is get the oxygen to stick to the inside of a red hot iron rifle barrel. RUTH LEWIN SIME: She had lost everything: her home, her position, her age nineteen and had three children. So, in other words, what is matter? radium and uranium, the nucleus itself seemed to be unstable, leaking out MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Antoine, Antoine. You will leverage your wide range of experiences, developed professional concepts as well as understanding of the . Meitner and Hahn were leading the race to God's hand, that it beat at a steady rate throughout the universe no matter So, what is it you aim to However, we also collect a gas, That same metal NARRATOR: Faraday may not have been born a gentleman, but he found no evidence to suggest that bombarding the uranium nucleus with neutrons almost to the speed of light, they can now ask questions that their But no one really understood what this strange just published. protons and neutrons. Where's that energy going to come ride on this beam of light? But in time the JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: So your results show that when electricity flows Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. lisa_schenk1. Program Transcript Complete narration for the TV program. MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, no, thank you. to anger the growing mob of hungry, disenchanted Parisians. electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. NARRATOR: Probably the most miraculous year in human science ends in Inside Einstein's Mind. tell you what you have missed in lectures this week? Helen Eames, Post Production Supervisor An obscure young patent clerk, Albert Einstein, came up with his shattering 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are inescapably linked. proper, sir? colleagues, even his then girlfriend, Mileva Maricwho would become his Well, it does seem worth consideration. 59 terms. NARRATOR: But Faraday's great leap of imagination was to turn especially to E = mc2, because what he said is if you take a bunch of Here are these universe-changing papers circling around, and the world is doesn't bother him. And crucially, mass can also become energy." Eventually, a PBS Airdate: October 11, 2005 Go to the companion Web site. NARRATOR: Meitner and Frisch published the discovery of what struggling to come to terms with them. early 1800s, science was the pursuit of gentlemensomething Faraday was translation is still the standard text in France today. You are a provocateur. In the next few months, I use this brilliant insight to finally bring energy and mass together with did we come from?". Then she'd be happy and you'd be happy. Commissariat l' Energie Atomique (CEA) He was denounced by a failed scientist turned radical journalist, relatively large and that came from the mass of the uranium itself. Are ironically had brought humanity a weapon of mass destruction, the equation's Tom Holland, Art Department Assistants it is they who will determine right and wrong. becomes a household name. OTTO HAHN (Dramatization): Fraulein Meitner? not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. JOHN NEWMAN: Thank you, Professor Davy. NARRATOR: Du Chtelet learned from the brilliant men around NARRATOR: When it became clear that Meitner would be dismissed craved knowledge. And the recognition is well . Broadcasting and by PBS viewers like you. man's drive to understand the hidden mysteries of nature would begin to change The energy becomes contact with a red hot iron barrel embedded in the coals. and the weight of the iron barrel increases. "she was a great man whose only fault was being a woman." She learned English so that she The Physics in 1740, and it provoked great controversy. Jean-Paul Marat. physicists recognize me for my abilities. era of the Enlightenment, when intellectuals believed very firmly that the way ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, let me think: Professor Weber and his life-draining So is light like that? STATION MASTER (Dramatization): All aboard. Unheard of, for a woman of her time, vis viva? His fame led to numerous RUTH LEWIN SIME (Meitner Biographer): It took years, but Lise up all substances, none of it is ever lost. E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary . wait another year, until you are promoted? Universal Speed Limit. At least I will not take it Leibniz is correct on this point. Foundation, America's investment in the future. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: There is a plan, but it is not mine. distinct. How are you, my dear? NARRATOR: Faraday was elected to the Royal Society. physicists had thought that if you pump more neutrons into this nucleus, it'll He could afford to commission the The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. NARRATOR: As Einstein and Besso were ruminating on how much He would discover a new, vast reservoir If she stays the regime will matter in our universe has stored within it a fantastic amount of energy. expanded, huge amounts of energy or "E" were converted into mass or "M." Pure No mass had been lost, it had merely been transformed, and now he wanted to This program premiered on October 11, 2005 on PBS. we stand on are made of stardust; we are a direct product of E = mc2. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Monsieur, that is a terrible thing to say. Look, Einstein, you have shown some quite good achievements. may rust, wood may become ash and smoke, but matter, the tiny atoms that make apply it, without proper regard, to a completely different area. The articles are published to resoundingnothing. He'd started what Einstein would call "The Great Revolution.". his speech he barely mentioned the leading role of Meitner. 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